Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test
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A sample of some of the earliest color motion picture film you will see. Visit Kodak's A Thousand Words blog for a post about the video: 1000words.kodak.com Music: Killer Tracks CD entitled: KT223 (Inspire). First track used is called "Breath," the second is called "Kindle." This footage is from the George Eastman House collections. Preservation was completed by the museum's Motion Picture Department, a project of Sabrina Negri, a student in Eastman House's L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation and a recipient of the Haghefilm Foundation Fellowship.
November 22nd, 2011 - 21:43
lovely!
November 22nd, 2011 - 22:12
@EasternMerchant Hope Hampton, Mary Eaton and Mae Murray are identified as 3 of the actresses here. The woman and child in the middle are not identified. I can’t stop watching this. Movies from the early years of film have a silly “over-acted” quality to them and it’s hard to relate to the actors, but this… this is about as real as you can get. I know the music is definitely setting a mood here but this is amazing, in a very sentimental way.
November 22nd, 2011 - 23:00
is this from them first consumer camcorders the kodak model A in th early 20s or professional i did see much earlier exsamples in 1908 of colour moveing film so the 20s isnt that original its been done 20 years before that this should havve been dedicxated to those first consumer cameras the kodak model A and the kodak model B and maybe the model K wich are only a few hundredpounds tobuy and are colour can we have sme consumer 1920s/1930s amuter colour home made cllips thanks
November 22nd, 2011 - 23:05
Thanks for posting this wonderful film, what a fantastic achievement this was, its amazing, it’s lovely to see…..
November 22nd, 2011 - 23:20
Early Kodachrome wasn’t really ‘color’ per se but 2 layers of film-red & blue w/the black & white spectrum in between.I think they used a layer of filters as well.When I was a kid in the 70′s I acquired a 1921 ‘Popular Science’ magazine which explained the process w/photos of Both George Eastman as well as Thomas Edison working on the same project together.In’79, i saw the first ’2-toned’ hollywood musical SOUND film (1929) featuring this same color process called ‘MakingWhoopie” w/EddieCantor!
November 23rd, 2011 - 00:06
Titanic….
November 23rd, 2011 - 00:32
There’s something almost haunting about this.. Makes you wonder if any of them are alive, and if you’d told them back then that we would be communicating and sharing their images across the world with millions of strangers at the same time, whether they would have believed you… I love these types of films.. it’s like staring history in the face. Beautiful.
November 23rd, 2011 - 00:36
How many times a day is it appropriate to watch this?
I sure hope not less than 10
November 23rd, 2011 - 01:20
Why are they dressed in Victorian garb?
November 23rd, 2011 - 01:56
I love then music on this who is it by?
November 23rd, 2011 - 02:35
I would love to see a film print of this projected onto a screen. Digital will NEVER have the quality of film.
November 23rd, 2011 - 03:15
This is something beautiful, eerily sad, and profound about these tests – all at the same time. Hard to describe, really.
November 23rd, 2011 - 03:15
The girl in the picture would be 95 now.
November 23rd, 2011 - 03:47
That’s amazing. The quality is something you might expect to see in the 60′s.
November 23rd, 2011 - 04:38
this is actually amazing.
November 23rd, 2011 - 04:51
The actress at the end is Mae Murray
November 23rd, 2011 - 05:12
Think of what that time will do to our cell,& home videos ? unimaginable.!
November 23rd, 2011 - 05:57
This has to be fake. Look at the focus. Films from the twenties were never this clear, even in black and white.
November 23rd, 2011 - 06:29
it’s such a weird feeling to see moving images of people with such humanly expressions as if they were your mother, or sister, or friend, but only to realize that almost everyone from that time period has died so long ago.
November 23rd, 2011 - 06:38
All I think about is Boardwalk Empire.
November 23rd, 2011 - 07:22
@TGram29 Was that actress Clara Bow with the red hair toward the end? I read a book about her from the library, and she was a red head.
November 23rd, 2011 - 07:27
@aquietnovember Yes, I agree. To me, it’s like seeing ghosts.
November 23rd, 2011 - 08:17
@Sheri451 keep in mind that you had to be very rich and noteworthy to make it on film at the time.
November 23rd, 2011 - 08:46
@CoastlineSA No, he would have been much older, remember The Kid was made 4, 5 years earlier. That dutch cut was the style for boys in the ’20′s.
November 23rd, 2011 - 08:52
Magnifique ! Hallucinant !!! Kodachrome c’était le top !
comme j’suis blasé de ne pas en avoir utiliser au temps ou je faisait des vidéos de Snowboard en 16mm :’(
heureusement que j’ai tester en photo !
sinon vidéo superbe ! les modeles sont sublime !! quelle classe…d’un autres temps